Business and market developments driven by political decisions: tax bills, tariff schedules, agency appointments, subsidy programs and procurement changes. Items identify the industries exposed and the timing of any effect. Read by corporate affairs teams, investors and analysts pricing political risk.
The agencies gave stakeholders an extra month on draft guidance for business collaborations — the joint-venture and competitor-cooperation rules that shape alliances from pharma to chips.
Asha Venkataswamy · May 6, 2026
The Dodd-Frank provision directs collection and reporting of small-business credit data — including borrower demographics — through a rule whose compliance dates have moved with each legal and administrative turn.
Asha Venkataswamy · April 14, 2026
A Federal Register notice published February 27 formally withdrew the 2023 joint-employer standard and restored the narrower 2020 test — reshaping franchise and contractor liability while the SEC opened a crypto rulemaking.
Asha Venkataswamy · March 22, 2026
Before most major regulations take effect, a small White House office runs the cost-benefit arithmetic — and the resulting analyses, not the press releases, are where business should read the risk.
Asha Venkataswamy · February 27, 2026
The FOMC voted unanimously January 28 to keep the reserve-balance rate at 3.65 percent, while a separate statutory deadline put stablecoin supervision questions on bank regulators' January calendar.
Asha Venkataswamy · February 4, 2026